English > class Insecta: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species. |
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| Synonyms | Insecta, Hexapoda, class Hexapoda |
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| Member of | Arthropoda, phylum Arthropoda | jointed-foot invertebrates |
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| Members | Anoplura, order Anoplura | sucking lice |
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| Coleoptera, order Coleoptera | beetles |
| Collembola, order Collembola | minute wingless arthropods |
| Dermaptera, order Dermaptera | earwigs and a few related forms |
| Dictyoptera, order Dictyoptera | In some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids) |
| Diptera, order Diptera | A large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths |
| Embioptera, order Embioptera, Embiodea, order Embiodea | web spinners |
| Ephemeroptera, order Ephemeroptera, Ephemerida, order Ephemerida | mayflies |
| Exopterygota, subclass Exopterygota, Hemimetabola | subclass of insects characterized by gradual and usually incomplete metamorphosis |
| Hemiptera, order Hemiptera | plant bugs |
| Hymenoptera, order Hymenoptera | An order of insects including |
| Isoptera, order Isoptera | Order of social insects that live in colonies, including |
| Lepidoptera, order Lepidoptera | moths and butterflies |
| Mallophaga, order Mallophaga | biting lice |
| Mantophasmatodea, order mantophasmatodea | An order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from the Baltic region |
| Mecoptera, order Mecoptera | An order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip |
| Neuroptera, order Neuroptera | An order of insects including |
| Odonata, order Odonata | dragonflies and damselflies |
| Orthoptera, order Orthoptera | grasshoppers and locusts |
| Phasmida, order Phasmida, Phasmatodea, order Phasmatodea | In some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera |
| Plecoptera, order Plecoptera | stoneflies |
| Protura, order Protura | minute wingless arthropods |
| Psocoptera, order Psocoptera, Corrodentia, order Corrodentia | An order of insects |
| Siphonaptera, order Siphonaptera | fleas |
| Thysanoptera, order Thysanoptera | thrips |
| Thysanura, order Thysanura | firebrats |
| Trichoptera, order Trichoptera | An order of insects consisting of caddis flies |
| Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
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| Spanish | hexápodos, insectos |
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| Catalan | Hexapoda, Hexàpode, Insecta, Insecte |
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